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	1996 Olympics — Infoplease.com
		Arts to play key role in 1996 Summer Olympics.
		Countdown to the 1996 Olympics: although time is running out, aggressive companies can still get their share of the gold.
		Nets take their mark as race for '96 Olympics begins.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0201963.html (611 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance.
		It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger, along with the acquisitions of the Bravo and Telemundo networks, made it possible for the network to broadcast over 1200 hours of coverage during the games, triple what was broadcast in the U.S. four years earlier.
		The main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	Olympics
		Until 1994, the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year, but in 1986 the International Olympic Committee, which organises the Olympics, decided to separate them, so as to spread costs for all involved parties.
		As with the Ancient Olympics, once the flame has been lit, it is kept burning throughout the celebration of the Olympics, and is extinguished at end of the closing ceremony of the Games.
		The Olympic fire is then extinguished, and the Olympic flag is lowered, folded, and presented to the mayor of the host city of the next Olympic Games.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /olympics/Olympics.htm (1089 words)

	1996 Summer Olympics
		Also during the games, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing took place on July 27, 1996 killing Alice Hawthorne and wounding 111 others, and causing the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack.
		Cycling professionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain winning the inaugural individual time trial event.
		Michelle Smith of Ireland wins three gold medals and a bronze, but her victories are overshadowed by doping allegations, which are later reinforced as she is banned after failing a test in 1999.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/19/1996_summer_olympics.shtml (430 words)

	1984 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
		Tennis returns for the first time since the 1924 Summer Olympics, this time as a demonstration sport.
		Olympic soccer was unexpectedly played before massive crowds throughout America, with several sell-outs at the 100,000+ seat Rose Bowl.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1984_Summer_Olympics (1001 words)

	1896 Summer Olympics
		These were the first celebration of the Olympic Games since the recreation of the ancient Greek Olympics with the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
		This is remarkable, as the Olympics did not, for a long time, allow professional athletes to compete, with the sole exception of fencing.
		The weightlifting contests are also conducted in the Olympic stadium, with Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Viggo Jensen of Denmark taking a first and a second place each in the single-hand and double-hand contests.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/1/18/1896_summer_olympics.shtml (886 words)

	Economic Impact of Hosting Olympic Games
		The total economic impact of the 1996 Summer Games therefore is the sum of the direct and indirect impacts and their respective induced impacts.
		The indirect economic impact of the 1996 Summer Olympics is that portion of spending by out-of-state visitors that purchases goods and services produced by Georgia's industries to satisfy the additional demand, as summarized in Table 1.
		As noted previously, impacts created by hosting the Olympics are not limited to direct and indirect spending, but also include the induced (multiplier) effects that are created through sucessive rounds of re-spending the initial dollars within the state.
	www.selig.uga.edu /forecast/olympics/OLYMTEXT.HTM (2662 words)

	Summer Olympics – Resources @ Your Library - Palm Beach County Library System
		The 1996 Olympics in Atlanta will mark the centenary of the modern games, and this lavish volume, with more than 750 photos in color and fl and white, is an impressive tribute.
		Here is the historical background to the founding of the games by French nobleman Pierre de Coubertin, and accounts of the summer and winter (the latter founded in 1925) events, from the moving victory of Greek athlete Spiridon Louis in the first marathon in Athens to the 16-day winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994.
		Recounting the memorable and significant athletic events of the Olympics in terms of their social and political impact, Guttmann demonstrates that the modern games were revived to propagate a political message and continue to serve political purposes.
	www.pbclibrary.org /story-summer-olympics.htm (542 words)

	Bob Larson's Tennis News \| USTA announces its Olympic teams. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Venus Williams, 24, will be making her second Olympic appearance having won a gold medal in both women’s singles and women’s doubles at the 2000 Olympic Games, joining Helen Wills in 1924 as the only player to sweep both titles in the same Olympiad.
		Navratilova, 47, will be making her Olympic debut in Athens in a professional tennis career that began in 1973 and includes 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 39 Grand Slam doubles titles, 167 singles titles, 174 doubles titles and a perfect 40-0 record as member of the U.S. Fed Cup team.
		Tennis was part of the Olympic program from the first modern Olympiad in 1896 until 1924.
	www.tennisnews.com /exclusive.php?pID=417 (1239 words)

	Tennis in Olympics quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tennis went out of the Olympics after the 1924 Games for quite some time but was staged as a demonstration and exhibition event in one of the Games.
		When tennis returned to Olympics in the 1984 Los Angeles Games, it was restricted as a demonstration event to players under the age of 21.
		Two-time Olympic champion Steffi Graf was denied a hat-trick of golds by this inspired lady from America.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=188769 (348 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Greeks held the first Olympic games in the year 776 BC (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the "stade").
		For each Olympics, a new flame is started in the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia, Elis, Greece, using a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of the Sun.
		The events in the Summer Olympics include: archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, kayaking, marathon, pentathlon, ping pong, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, taekwando, tennis, track and field (many running, jumping, and throwing events), triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	Atlanta in Lesson Tennis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She is a specialist in media campaignplanning, atlanta in lesson tennis and organizing large-scale special events atlanta in lesson tennis and projects.
		Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's Singles - Below the complete results of the Women's Singles Tennis Competition held at the Stone Mountain Park complex during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
		Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's Singles - Below the complete results of the Men's Singles Tennis Competition held at the Stone Mountain Park complex during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
	tennis.usamsoc.com /atlantainlessontennis.html (875 words)

	Summer Olympics
		In badminton the net is lowered, and they use a shuttlecock instead of a tennis ball, and it is never to hit the ground, or the other team gets a point.
		Olympic racing is now conducted with boats categorised into one-design classes based on similar weights and dimensions.
		Olympic history abounds with tales of athletes who overcame crippling adversity to win gold medals, but Karoly Takacs' comeback may be the best.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0214546/solympics.html (1844 words)

	Anguilla Tennis Academy: Buy a Brick!
		She is currently a member of the board of the United States Tennis Association and is the captain of the USA Fed Cup Team.
		She compared the Anguilla tennis programme to her own experience growing up and says she is pleased to be able to help the children in Anguilla.
		In the 1988 Seoul, Korea Olympics, representing the United States of America, she won a bronze medal in singles and a gold medal in doubles with partner Pam Shriver.
	www.tennis.ai (3214 words)

	Summer Olympics: Volleyball
		In the Olympics there are two different kinds of volleyball, Volleyball and Beach Volleyball.
		Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1964 and Beach Volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1996.
		In the Olympics both Volleyball and Beach Volleyball are played by men and women.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/olympics/volleyball.htm (222 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games News: 2004 SUMMER OLYMPICS NOTE
		#Event Description & Format - Tennis# ------------------------------------- Tennis will be making its fifth consecutive appearance as a full-medal sport in the Olympics and will feature some of the biggest names in the sport.
		Tennis, which made its Olympic debut in 1896 with the men's singles and doubles competitions, was dropped in 1924, a victim of a dispute between amateurs and professionals.
		The tennis competition runs from August 15-22 at the Olympic Tennis Centre.
	slam.canoe.ca /StatsOLY/BC-OLY-LGNS-TENNISDESC-R.html (158 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		Since then, the sport's evolution has been a steady climb as athletes and engineers experiment with anything that might shave a few seconds off their times.
		That inaugural Olympic road race was held on the marathon course, with riders completing two laps covering a total of 87 kilometres.
		Almost a century passed before women got their chance to race in 1984, and, 12 years later, at the 1996 Atlanta Games, time trials were introduced.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=CR (251 words)

	Olympics: Tennis
		But defending Olympic champion Andre Agassi was likely to withdraw to spend time with his ailing mother and sister, top-ranked Gustavo Kuerten left Brazil's team in a dispute over uniform sponsorship and Russia's seventh-ranked Yevgeny Kafelnikov seemed on the brink of pulling out after a poor U.S. Open performance.
		Not when tennis was on the program from 1896-1924 and not since it returned to the Games in 1988.
		Making the whole thing even more unseemly is that Venus Williams seemed to suggest this summer that she would pull out of the Olympics if her sister was not named to the team.
	www.sptimes.com /News/091000/Olympics/Tennis.shtml (528 words)

	Olympics
		Olympic ring border, list of words related to bobsledding and luge to use in poem.
		When the Olympics are over, use the results from your chart to answer the questions.
		This reading comprehension is a biography of Olympic champion Kerri Strug and the story of her famous gold-medal win in gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics.
	www.abcteach.com /directory/theme_units/sports/olympics (1215 words)

	Saudi Athletes in Atlanta Strive to Build on Their Nation's Olympic Tradition
		The Olympics have always inspired feelings of national pride, both in the inhabitants of the host country and in the inhabitants of every country sending athletes to the games.
		For the first time ever, the Kingdom's soccer team was represented in the Olympics, and although it lost its first game to Brazil and tied its second with Malaysia, it was a great moment in Saudi soccer history and set the course for the national soccer team's participation in future Olympics.
		In the 25th Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992, Saudi athletes represented the Kingdom in a number of sports, including some in which the Kingdom had never before competed, such as gymnastics, table tennis and swimming.
	www.saudiembassy.net /Publications/MagSummer96/olympics.html (951 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Aussie fans frown on Dokic's dad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tennis enthusiasts at the North Sydney tennis club "Love'n Deuce" were quick with their opinions on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, praising the prospects of Lleyton Hewitt, but bashing the boorish behavior of Dokic's father.
		Hewitt, who won on the Olympic Park courts earlier this year when he took the Sydney International title, was the top choice among those polled at Love'n Deuce.
		In the latest of a series of embarrassing blow-ups, Dokic's father was escorted off the grounds and banned from the U.S. Open after an obscenity-laced tirade in the players' dining room over the price and portion of a salmon platter.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/tennis/s/0913dokic.html (537 words)

	1924 Summer Olympics information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held in 1924 in Paris, France.
		The marathon distance was fixed at 42.195 km, from the distance run at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
		Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/1924_Summer_Olympics (425 words)

	1800-Olympics.com -- Summer Olympics: Olympic Sports: Athletics
		Olympic events run on the road are the marathons (men's and women's), the men's 20km and 50km race walks and the women's 10km race walk.
		was born on the island of Guadeloupe and represented France at the Olympics.
		Pérec made history again when she defeated Merlene Ottey of Jamaica in the 200m final, to become the second runner to win both the 400m and the 200m.
	1800-olympics.com /SummerOlympics/OlympicSports/Athletics.htm (953 words)

	Olympics News and Coverage
		The 2004 Olympic Games will be held August 13-28 in Athens, Greece, with the tennis competition being staged August 15-22 at the Athens Olympic Tennis Center.
		To be eligible to compete for in the Olympic Tennis Event, players must be no younger than 14 years as at 12/31/2003 (men) or 15 years as at 8/13/2004 (women).
		It was Olympic gold that brought tears to the eyes of 20-year-old tennis superstar Venus Williams.
	www.usta.com /protennis/home.sps?iType=956 (2511 words)

	Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the host nation United States won 3 of the 4 gold medals in tennis.
		For the first time at the Olympics, single bronze medal was awarded in each event.
		Tennis events at the 1996 Summer Olympics
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tennis_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics (133 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
		The move could bring the Summer Olympics back to U.S. soil for the third time in 24 years.
		The Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta came to a close Sunday night, after two weeks of athletic competition between 197 countries and over 11,000 athletes -- the most ever in an Olympic Games.
		The Games closed with International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch praising the city of Atlanta, but notably failing to call the game as "the greatest in Olympic history" -- a phrase that has become routine in his Closing Ceremonies speeches.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/summer96.htm (271 words)

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